Henning Mankell (Writing)

Little is known about Henning Mankell, a figure with a modest footprint in Writing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.

Works

Young Wallander

An incendiary hate crime stirs civil unrest, fast-tracking rookie cop Kurt Wallander to detective in this origin story for the popular character.

Release Date:2020-09-03

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:186

Afternoon Encounter

She wants a divorce, a cleaning prior to death - but he refuses. Here’s an old couple that can’t stand each other, other than as memories. The film is based on a radio play script.

Release Date:2017-01-29

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Sjöwall & Wahlöö - Berättelsen om ett brott

The whole story of how the books about Martin Beck came to be is told here. It's a love story. A young couple wanted to talk about the injustices in society. Thus was born the modern detective story. It has been over 50 years since the first book in the series came out and it would only be in the fall of the age that Sjöwall Wahlöö was celebrated as the creator of the entire modern detective genre.

Release Date:2016-01-04

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

The dead still have a name

In 2010 the Freedom Flotilla attempts to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. In international waters the flotilla is attacked by the Israeli army and 9 people are killed. 9 anonymous people. But the dead still have a name. In 2014 Gaza is attacked by Israel. 2131 Palestinians are killed, among them 513 children. 513 dead children. But the dead children still have names. The film is about a Jewish person who has made a political journey from the Vietnam war to Gaza. This person is the paediatrician Henry Ascher, who lost his fathers entire family in the Holocaust.

Release Date:2015-05-08

Character:Himself

Vote Count:6

Wallander: The Sad Bird

When a restauranteur is abducted, Wallander's investigation leads him to suspect the Malmö police might be involved.

Release Date:2013-10-23

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:12

Wallander 31 - The Arsonist

When an arsonist is released from prison, the villagers do not want him anywhere near them. Soon they take matters into their hands and Wallander has to investigate whether their fear is justified.

Release Date:2013-09-25

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:8

Wallander: The Loss

A young woman is found dead in Ystad. When the police begin the case, they are told that the woman came from Moldova and that she worked as a prostitute in Sweden. Kurt, who leads the case, decides to seek out the woman's family in Moldova. When he returns to Sweden, he is involved in a car accident and takes a leave of absence from work. Around the same time, Kurt finds where his forgetfulness comes from.

Release Date:2013-08-23

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:10

Wallander: Missing

A girl disappears on her way to school, and suspicion falls on her father who has been fighting for her custody. Wallander's investigation is helped when he visits a woman whom he had arrested when her own daughter disappeared.

Release Date:2013-06-19

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:10

Wallander: The Troubled Man

Wallander has become a grandfather and is trying to seize the role as good as it goes because he wants to be closer to his daughter Linda and her family. When Linda's father-in-law mysteriously disappears, Wallander is drawn into the case that takes him back in time to the Cold War and the submarine violations in the Stockholm archipelago. At the same time, he's starting to suspect that something is not right with him...

Release Date:2013-01-11

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:15

Lone Wolves & Dragon Tattoos: How Scandinavian Crime Fiction Conquered the World

Lone Wolves & Dragon Tattoos traces the evolution of Nordic crime fiction, from its humble beginnings with the Martin Beck novels of the 1960s straight through to the worldwide phenomenon of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, featuring interviews with some of the actors, writers and producers who bring these mysteries to life on-screen.

Release Date:2011-02-28

Character:Himself

Wallander: The Witness

A girl goes missing somewhere in Ystad. It is obvious that she has seen something terrible and that someone wants her silenced. At the same time, a trial of human traffickers begins.

Release Date:2010-07-21

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:13

Wallander: The Collector

A young woman is killed and robbed in her apartment. The trail leads to her indebted ex-boyfriend, a bouncer. In the investigation, the police officer Pontus notices that his colleague is nervous. Isabell carries around a dark secret: one of the suspects, in this case, has a means of pressure against her in her hand. Commissioner Wallander has a great deal on the capable young policewoman, whose loyalty to her fatherly superior is subjected to a hard test of endurance.

Release Date:2010-06-10

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:11

Wallander: The Heritage

When Manfred Stjarne is stabbed to death outside the Brada cider factory his wife Claire has inherited - suspicion falls on Polish worker Jan Kowalski, with whose wife Manfred was having an affair, but Jan is found hanged - later evidence suggesting foul play. Benjamin Wilkes, an ex-psychologist who helped Manfred select redundancy candidates, is killed in the same way as Manfred, putting disgruntled ex-Brada employees in the frame, but a third slaying implicates a former patient of Wilkes, who has connections to the Stjarne family. A newly loved-up Isabelle and Pontius start to fool around whilst on surveillance, taking their eye off the ball and allowing this suspect to confront Claire.

Release Date:2010-04-21

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:14

Kennedy's Brain

A young Swedish freelance investigative journalist dies under mysterious circumstances in South Africa, and his mother sets off in a relentless pursuit of the truth behind his death.

Release Date:2010-04-03

Department:Writing

Job:Author

Wallander: The Ghost

Arson is suspected when a house burns to the ground following a gas explosion, and a man and a woman are found dead. Wallander investigates and uncovers an intricate web of lies.

Release Date:2010-03-24

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:13

Wallander 22 - Angel of Death

A choir of young women gives a guest performance in a country church outside Ystad. But when an 18-year-old member of the choir disappears, Wallander is brought in to investigate.

Release Date:2010-01-20

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:14

Wallander: The Sniper

When a small-time crook is killed by a sniper, Wallander and the Ystad police investigate. Meanwhile, trainee policeman Pontus is forced to reconsider his career.

Release Date:2009-12-16

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:12

Wallander: The Leak

The seemingly random murder of a jogger in woodland and the detonation of car bombs in central Ystad are but diversions to busy the police whilst a security van are robbed of 15 million kroner. Isabelle and Portus witness this and give chase but are attacked by the criminals and hospitalized. Given the security firm's meticulous contingency plan Wallander suspects a leak from the inside and aims for Micke Sterner, a compulsive gambler and the only staff member to know the encoded transit schedules. But some private sleuthing by over-worked Svartman, who has found the robbers' den, and Wallander's suspicions of an ex-cop turned security officer with connections to the firm provide the real break-through.

Release Date:2009-11-18

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:13

Wallander: The Priest

A priest is shot outside a hotel in Ystad and is fighting for his life in hospital. Wallander has no clues to the shooter until he finds out that the priest was having an affair.

Release Date:2009-10-21

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:11

Wallander: The Cellist

A Russian cellist is subject to a bomb attack following a performance in Ystad. It turns out that she is a witness in a murder prosecution against a member of the Russian mafia.

Release Date:2009-09-16

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:13

Wallander: The Thief

Homes are being burgled in Ystad and three neighbors form their own vigilante group. Soon Wallander is convinced the group has committed a double murder, although no bodies have been found.

Release Date:2009-08-19

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:14

Wallander: The Courier

After the murder of a motorcyclist, an investigation reveals that bikers are being used as drug couriers from Denmark to Sweden and that the killing was part of a cartel power struggle.

Release Date:2009-07-22

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:19

Wallander: The Guilt

When a young boy disappears from pre-school, Wallander joins a desperate search to find him. Suspicions immediately fall on a pedophile recently released from prison.

Release Date:2009-06-17

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:15

Wallander: The Revenge

Kurt Wallander has bought a dream house by the sea, but his peace and quiet is soon shattered when a man is murdered and an explosion in one of Ystad's power grids shuts down the electricity in the whole city.

Release Date:2009-01-09

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:18

Wallander

This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling books by Henning Mankell.

Release Date:2008-11-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:133

The Pyramid

The film is set in the middle of winter in Ystad and the main character is the middle-aged policeman Kurt Wallander, who this time investigating a drug tangle. It starts with his own goddaughter Eva found dead after taking an overdose. It turns out that heroin is unusually strong and Kurt are now beginning their search for those behind the drugs. But he has a big problem. His boss will not let him look for the person who he suspects has sold the new heroin , but she wants them to look for another drug dealer named Yngve Holm. But Kurt defy the boss's orders and go again and again to Malmo to try to unravel the case. Eventually he gets a hold of the person he suspected. He'll take some photos of him and shows them for their guddotters friend Emma who were drug dealers. She takes Kurt to a friend who claims to have seen the man. The man in the photo is called Heinrich Pasila. Wallander thinks one recognizes Pasila from an earlier murder of guddotterns mother, where the offender is found.

Release Date:2007-11-28

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:9

Wallander - Firewall

Kurt Wallander is thrown into a world he does not master - the computing world. An empty taxi found, heavily bloodstained and battered. Two young girls are taken in for questioning and admits murder of the taxi driver, but does not tell where the body is. The day after a man is found lying dead at an ATM with the bank statement in his hand. Two seemingly different cases, or do they have anything to do with each other? Kurt Wallander is trying to find answers, but he does not recognize himself - he feels unwell, dizzy and is forced to go to hospital.

Release Date:2007-01-19

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:4

Wallander: The Secret

11-year-old Johannes is found raped and murdered. Investigations lead to a pedophile ring and detective Stefan Lindman's dark secret.

Release Date:2006-11-10

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:13

Wallander: The Joker

When a woman is murdered outside her restaurant in front of her eight-year-old daughter, Wallander and his team link the death to a restaurant mafia.

Release Date:2006-11-01

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:15

Wallander: Blood Line

Following an argument with her lover on her boat, a woman is found dead. Wallander and the Ystad police investigate; their inquiries lead them to a farm commune and to an old friend of Linda's.

Release Date:2006-10-25

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:15

Wallander: Firewall

Release Date:2006-10-04

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:10

Wallander: The Castle Ruins

Kurt Wallander and the team are stumped when they find an old man, Greger Stehn, dead due to poisoning. It appears that Stehn, who looked like a vagrant, was in fact very wealthy.

Release Date:2006-08-23

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:14

Wallander: The Container Lorry

A semi-trailer found dumped and full of dead people leads Kurt Wallander and his team to a convent where the nuns have been assisting illegal refugees into Sweden via Poland.

Release Date:2006-07-19

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:15

Wallander: The Photographer

When an American tourist is found murdered after visiting an internationally renowned photographer, her husband believes she was having an affair. Kurt Wallander decides to investigate.

Release Date:2006-05-10

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:15

Wallander: The Trickster

While Kurt Wallander works on a murder case involving a charming yet evil horse dealer who plays on the vulnerability of lonely women, he finds himself romantically involved with a married woman.

Release Date:2006-03-15

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:13

Wallander: Mastermind

Kurt Wallander and the other police officers try to find the connection between a horrible murder that took place in Ystad and the kidnapping of one of the police force's daughters. It also seems someone has infiltrated the police and controls every move the police make.

Release Date:2005-12-16

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:28

Wallander: The African

Kurt Wallander receives a murder case from the Polish police, it turns out that the victim was shot dead on board a train in Sweden. Most of his face is shot away and for Wallander personally the case gets an unexpected turn. His two closest police colleagues are the daughter Linda, newly graduated police officer, and criminal inspector Stefan Lindman.

Release Date:2005-11-16

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:15

Wallander: The Overdose

Krister Henriksson plays the lead role as Henning Mankell's sharp-eyed Commissioner Kurt Wallander at the Ystad Police. After a girl's suicide, they come across a tangle on the track that affects several girls at the same school, a case that deeply affects Linda Wallander. Linda's closest colleague is Detective Stefan Lindman.

Release Date:2005-10-12

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:14

Wallander: The Brothers

In the third Wallander film, starring Krister Henriksson, a bestial double murder is investigated in which the victims have been subjected to torture and where many point to the act of revenge. Henning Mankell's sharp-eyed commissioner has the assistance of daughter Linda, newly graduated police officer, and criminal inspector Stefan Lindman.

Release Date:2005-09-07

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:16

Wallander: The Village Idiot

In the second film with Krister Henriksson as Kurt Wallander, a man enters a bank and threatens to blow it up in the air unless his demands are met. Henning Mankell's sharp-eyed commissioner has the assistance of daughter Linda, newly graduated police officer, and criminal inspector Stefan Lindman.

Release Date:2005-08-03

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:19

One Step Behind

Shortly after police discovers the murder of three friends, police inspector Wallander finds his friend and colleague Svedberg dead. First, it is believed that Svedberg killed himself but Wallander soon discovers links between Svedberg, the three friends and a fourth person, a young woman in a mental hospital.

Release Date:2005-06-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:17

Wallander

Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The 2nd series of 13 films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films Before the Frost, Mastermind, and The Secret were premiered in cinemas, with the rest first released as direct-to-DVD movies. The first episode of the second series, Hämnden, was released in Swedish cinemas in January 2009; the rest of the series was made for television. The BBC aired all 26 episodes of the Swedish television versions on BBC Four. A third and final season, containing six 90 minute episodes, will air in 2013 with Charlotta Jonsson as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel The Troubled Man, was released in cinemas in January 2013.

Release Date:2005-01-14

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Episode Count:32

Vote Count:54

Wallander: Before the Frost

A fanatical sect is suspected to be behind some horrific violent crimes in Ystad. Henning Mankell's sharp-eyed commissioner receives assistance from her daughter Linda, a newly-graduated police officer, and criminal inspector Stefan Lindman. The first of 32 films with Krister Henriksson as the popular commissioner Kurt Wallander.

Release Date:2005-01-13

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:22

Danslärarens återkomst

A former policeman is tortured and murdered and his friend and former colleague investigates the case.

Release Date:2004-11-05

Department:Writing

Job:Author

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:4

Kulturplatz

Release Date:2004-09-01

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

The Return of the Dancing Master

Stefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner Herbert Molin is brutally murdered in the remote town of Sveg, Lindman travels north to investigate. The more Lindman digs into the mysterious killing, the less he is sure to have known the man he feels so much indebted to...

Release Date:2004-04-08

Department:Writing

Job:Author

Vote Count:8

Mannen Som Log

In this adaption of a Henning Mankell novel, Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates a case of murder and trade of human organs.

Release Date:2003-12-26

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:10

Through the Night with...

Durch die Nacht mit … is a German documentary film television series produced by ZDF for Franco-German television channel ARTE. Locations are mainly in France or Germany. The title of the French version is Au cœur de la nuit. Two Celebrities spend an filmed evening together. One of them is the host who sets the location and the program. There is no moderator.

Release Date:2002-05-10

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

NDR Kultur – Das Journal

Release Date:2002-04-29

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

The Fifth Woman

The 5th woman unfolds autumn 1994. An elderly man found in a gillrad pitfall impaled to death on the sharp sharpened bamboo poles, ecstatic praise of crows. Shortly afterwards disappears a florist without a trace and he also found executed in the forest. Kurt Wallander and his colleagues will soon understand that the attacks is all about revenge.

Release Date:2002-03-08

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:10

Villospår

It is autumn and the people in the otherwise peaceful small town Ystad settle down. But for Kurt Wallander broken idyll of a young woman burned to death in a cornfield. Soon after hitting a serial killer with a series of increasingly brutal murder. What is the relationship between a retired attorney general, a successful art dealer and an ordinary petty thief? Why scalp killer his victims?

Release Date:2001-10-19

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:9

Nelio's Story

Based on the book by Henning Mankell (Sweden), this story takes place in Mozambique and is about a young boy, Nelio, who loses his entire family during a time of civil war. A wounded Nelio is found by a baker in the capital Mapouto; refusing medical treatment, the boy instead asks for sanctuary so he can tell his terrible tale. This he proceeds to do, starting with how the fighters arrived in his village and slaughtered many, to his captivity, his escape and his teaming with other orphaned street urchins to become their leader in survival.

Release Date:1998-07-24

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:3

Nachtstudio

Release Date:1997-09-03

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Etterfølgeren

Release Date:1997-08-22

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Hundarna i Riga

Release Date:1996-11-06

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1

The White Lioness

In Cape Town, a police inspector named September color discovers that the dreaded Mabasha, hired murderer, is in talks with a right-wing organization. In Skåne, southwest of Sweden, is given to the real estate agent Louise Åkerblom by missing and the case is assigned to Inspector Wallander. Just start research supposedly empty building explodes. An unusual weapon, a transmitter Russian and index finger of a man of color are found in the wreckage of the building ...

Release Date:1996-11-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:9

The Dogs of Riga

A lifeboat floats ashore at the coast of Skåne. Inside are two dead men who who've been murdered. Policeman Kurt Wallander is assigned to the case. The men are identified with the help of the police in Latvia. One of their officers travel to Sweden to to help but when he returns to his home country he is mysteriously murdered. Kurt flies to Riga to find out why and is drawn into complex conspiracy.

Release Date:1995-11-09

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:10

Mördare utan ansikte

It is winter on the plains of Skåne coast. Farmer woken gets up and goes over to the neighboring farm. The sight that meets him is terrible. His neighbor John Lövgren lying on the floor with broken face. His wife Mary is sitting on a chair with a noose around his neck and her nightgown nersölat of blood. Before she dies in the hospital, she has time to say a word as soon leak out into the media, "Foreign" Inspector Kurt Wallander in Ystad police leading the investigation will soon receive anonymous threats by telephone. When the city's refugee camp on fire and a Somali refugee murdered, he understands that those who threatened him serious. And realize that it is now a race against time. And, against a ruthless opponent. A killer with no face ...

Release Date:1995-09-03

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:6

The Race

The elusive dream that brings many people to the horse-racecourse.

Release Date:1981-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

A Little Horror?

Norwegian scary stories to tell in the dark.

Release Date:1973-11-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1